Scott Hocking
Works
Exhibitions
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Summer 2023
Detroit August 12 - September 9, 2023 -
Scott Hocking | Retrograde
Detroit November 19, 2022 - February 18, 2023 -
Scott Hocking: Detroit Stories
Cranbrook Art Museum November 5, 2022 - March 12, 2023 -
August Selections
Detroit August 13 - September 2, 2022 -
Scott Hocking | Old
Detroit May 12 - June 23, 2018 -
First Show
Detroit Grand Opening September 17 - October 31, 2015
Biography
Scott Hocking, was born in Redford Township, Michigan in 1975 and has lived and worked in Detroit since 1996. A sixth-generation Detroiter, he descended from a long line of Baltic Polish immigrants and Cornish copper miners who settled in Michigan’s copper harbor. Hocking creates site-specific installations, sculptures and photographs, often using found materials and neglected locations. Inspired by subjects ranging from ancient mythologies to current events, he focuses on transformation, ephemerality, chance, and the cycles of nature.
Hocking’s installations are interventions into urban and rural landscapes, forlorn structures, and even within the confines of a gallery’s white walls. Often combining rubble and detritus with mythological references and mysticism, his installations look to shared historical interpretations of life and death cycles
Hocking’s work has been widely exhibited nationally and internationally, including Cranbrook Art Museum, Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Eli and Edythe Broad Museum, Crystal Bridges Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Museum, The Mattress Factory Museum, the Van Abbemuseum, Kunst-Werke Institute, Kunsthalle Wien and the Lille 3000 Triennial, Lille, France.
Scott Hocking is a recipient of the prestigious 2022 Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship. Previous awards received include the Kresge Artist Fellowship, the Knight Foundation Challenge Grant, as well as residential grants in France, Iceland, Australia, Canada, Brazil, and throughout the United States. Scott Hocking lives and works in Detroit. He is represented by David Klein Gallery.
Video
Press
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In the Studio: Scott Hocking
Joan Mitchell Foundation, June 1, 2023 -
Scott Hocking leads trio of Detroit artists in new Cranbrook exhibit
Erica Hobbs, The Detroit News, November 4, 2022 -
HAUNT, GRAFT, RECAST: “NEW EARTHWORKS” AT THE ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM
Travis Diehl, Art in America, August 23, 2022 -
Stateside Podcast: Detroit artist Scott Hocking's "Floating Citadel"
Mercedes Mejia, NPR, August 18, 2022 -
11-foot 'Floating Citadel' sculpture unveiled outside Detroit's Huntington Place
Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, August 17, 2022 -
New Generation of Land Artists Embodies a Call for Action
Lynn Trimble, Hyperallergic, July 14, 2022 -
Detroit artist Scott Hocking Kayaks Through the Quarantimes
Model D, March 15, 2021 -
6 Breakout Artists From Across America to Discover in Crystal Bridges’s Sprawling Contemporary Art Survey
Caroline Elbaor, Artnet News, November 13, 2019 -
Astonishing ‘Bone Black’ Metaphorically Depicts Detroit’s Once Roaring Economy With Forsaken Boats Slathered In Industri
Natasha Gural, Forbes, June 23, 2019 -
From a Tower of Babel to a Concrete Ziggurat, an Artist Erects Monuments to Human Endeavors
Sarah Rose Sharp, Hyperallergic, June 14, 2018